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A letter from Taurinos, writing on the orders of a high-ranking illustris, instructing the recipients to send relay horses by a set deadline and to take sureties for runaway and arrested workers and release them pending investigation. It comes from the Hermopolite nome.
The catalogue title suggests the recipient was Senouthios the anystes (a Coptic-era official, perhaps a tax collector), but this is marked as uncertain. The "horses of exchange" were probably relay or replacement horses for official transport.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Taurinos a Senouthios anystes (?). Istruzioni per cavalli e garanzie per fuggitivi catturati). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] † ἐκέλευσέν μοι ὁ κοινὸς δεσπότης ὁ ἐνδοξότατος ἰλλούστριος γράψαι τῇ θεοφυλάκτῳ ὑμῶν ἀδελφότητι ἰδοὺ πέμψατε ἐν τῇ προθεσμίᾳ ἵππους ἀλλαγῆς …εσο… γράψαι εἰς τὴν ἐπιστολὴν αὐτοῦ. ἐὰν οὐκ ἔφθασεν ἡ προθεσμία μὴ πέμψατε ἄρτι. ἐκέλευσεν δὲ τὰς ἐγγύας τῶν φυγόντων ἐργατῶν καὶ κρα…
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